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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2025-26042

Uptime Kuma >== 1.23.0 has a ReDoS vulnerability, specifically when an administrator creates a notification through the web service. If a string is provided it triggers catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression, leading to a ReDoS attack.

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4 Nov 2026, 16:25 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2025-26042

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Mar 2025, 00:00 UTC

Uptime Kuma >== 1.23.0 has a ReDoS vulnerability, specifically when an administrator creates a notification through the web service. If a string is provided it triggers catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression, leading to a ReDoS attack.

osv:CVE-2025-26042
Complete source record
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